Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...free wheeling Eliot House squad rode roughshod over Leverett in the first half of yesterday's game to score three goals in the initial half and win 19-6. After that half the Leverett eleven stiffened to hold Eliot scoreless and managed to net a tally for themselves...
...front of the headmaster's quarters in Hundred House one day last week Dr. Endicott Peabody stepped into his limousine, rode out through the gates of Groton School. In similar fashion, dozens of times each year, "The Rector" starts out for New York and Boston to marry old Groton boys. This time he was bound for Albany where, next evening, he was guest of honor at the 71st convocation of the University of the State of New York...
After its capture Aduwa showed little evidence of fighting, none of bombing. The muddy streets were swept clean, festooned with flags and triumphal arches of branches. Just outside the town General de Bono changed from his automobile to the back of a skittish little Arab charger, rode through the streets and to the parade ground beyond the town. There he reviewed 11,000 of his men, dedicated the monument whose erection was the first move of the invading Italians...
...across the wild gorges, jungles and plateaus of Ethiopia, until it rolled into the capitals of the six great rases (princes), whose war drums took it up, passed it on to the great chiefs and the little chiefs. To the farthest nomadic tribes, foraging no one knew where, couriers rode out by mule and camel. "Kitet!" was the word the criers and couriers gave, ''Close ranks, unite...
...small-town Michigan newspaper publisher, he was shipped off to a Wyoming ranch as a boy to punch cattle and fight Indians. Later he was a newshawk, throwing up his job to join Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. While the Show was in Britain he rode in a command performance for Queen Victoria. After another turn at newspaper work, which landed him at the managing editor's desk of an old Detroit daily, his eyes failed him, and he sadly set up a shipping office in Duluth. Today he owns the Tomlinson fleet of 15 Great Lakes...